Mr. Speaker, if he gets his way, we really never will get to second-guess the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister would put everybody's mind at ease if he would just agree that he will not use his majority to ram through changes to the Standing Orders without all-party consent. Unanimity has always been sought for changes to the rules that divide power between government and opposition. For example, the committee that Jean Chrétien set up to review the Standing Orders had unanimous consent written into its mandate, but the current Prime Minister seems to feel that decades of precedents count for nothing.
Why the fuddle duddle will he not commit to the long-standing practice that we do not change the rules without unanimous consent?